FreeBSD’s loader fails with wrong harddisk geometry in BIOS

Posted by: admin  :  Category: FreeBSD

I’s been a while since I last saw issues with FreeBSD’s loader(8).

The error I came along today read like this:

can't load kernel

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Vista on Xen: Using NE2000 in favor to RTL8139

Posted by: admin  :  Category: Xen

I finally took the time getting Vista to work in Xen.

Unfortunately there is a bug which prevents the emulated RTL8139 NIC from working properly in Vista (32-bit version concerned only, 64-bit version worked properly).
This seems a known issue after all and there exist several workarounds on the net concerning this case. So far they basically cover how alternate drivers may be patched together to go along with Vista.
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No "sleep" command for batch files? Make it a choice!

Posted by: admin  :  Category: DOS, Scripting, Windows

I just trapped myself while hacking up a batch file.
Used to shell scripting I wanted to add a delay to the batch using “sleep”.

Dough! Bad Idea! Bad command or filename. Smash your head here to continue {(x)}!
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